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Toronto International Film Festival 2011 Official Selection; Emma Stone in "The Gangster Squad"?; "Pearl Jam Twenty" trailer;

  • Here's the list of movies that are part of this year's edition of Toronto International Film Festival (and what an awesome selection it seems!):
GALAS
Albert Nobbs by Rodrigo Garcia, Ireland
Butter by Jim Field Smith, USA
A Dangerous Method by David Cronenberg, France/Ireland/United Kingdom/Germany/Canada
A Happy Event by Rémi Bezancon, France
The Ides of March by George Clooney, USA
The Lady by Luc Besson, France/United Kingdom
Moneyball by Bennett Miller, USA
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding by Bruce Beresford, USA
Take This Waltz by Sarah Polley, Canada
W.E. by Madonna, United Kingdom

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
11 Flowers by Wang Xiaoshuai, China/France
50/50 by Jonathan Levine, USA
360 by Fernando Meirelles UK/Austria/France/Brazil
The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, France
Anonymous by Roland Emmerich, Germany
A Better Life by Cédric Khan, France
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes, United Kingdom
Countdown by Huh Jong-ho, Korea
Dark Horse by Todd Solondz, USA
The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Davies, United Kingdom
The Descendants by Alexander Payne, USA
Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn, USA
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
The Eye of the Storm by Fred Schepisi, Australia
Friends With Kids by Jennifer Westfeldt, USA
Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti, Italy/France
Headhunters by Morten Tyldum, Norway
Hick by Derick Martini, USA
The Hunter by Daniel Nettheim, Australia
Jeff, Who Lives at Home by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, USA
Killer Joe by William Friedkin, USA
Like Crazy by Drake Doremus, USA
Machine Gun Preacher by Marc Forster, USA
Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin, USA
Melancholia by Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany
The Oranges by Julian Farino, USA
Pearl Jam Twenty by Cameron Crowe, USA
Rampart by Oren Moverman, USA
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Lasse Hallstrom, United Kingdom
Shame by Steve McQueen, United Kingdom
A Simple Life by Ann Hui, Hong Kong, China
The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols, USA
Ten Year by Jamie Linden, USA
Trishna by Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom
Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola, USA
Tyrannosaur by Paddy Considine, United Kingdom
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom
Where Do We Go Now? by Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
Woman in the Fifth by Pawel Pawlikowski, France/Poland/United Kingdom

    • According to Collider, "While Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer was unable to fit his good luck charm Jesse Eisenberg into the cast of his upcoming drama The Gangster Squad, it looks like he may be bringing some Zombieland brethren into the fold after all. Showblitz reports that Emma Stone is now in talks to join the cast of Fleischer’s period crime flick. The story revolves around the elite squad of cops who hunted down gangster Mickey Cohen in 1940s Los Angeles". Well, it sounds so good! I mean, the cast is already composed by Sean Penn (Mystic River), Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine), Josh Brolin (Milk), Michael Peña (Crash), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Giovanni Ribisi (Lost In Translation) and Holt McCallany (Fight Club) and now Emma Stone (Zombieland) may join them... It seems so interesting! Gosling, Penn and Brolin use to deliver very intense performances and Stone is a beautiful actress that I'm curious to see in the drama genre (she usually does comedies). I will keep my eyes in this project, definetly...

    • Cameron Crowe (the director of Almost Famous) is back this year with 3 (THREE!) movie projects: The Union (a documentary with Elton John in it), We Bought a Zoo (the film adaptation of Benjamin Mee's best-selling memoir starring Matt Damon) and Pearl Jam Twenty (a documentary of Pearl Jam with unseen footage). And the trailer of Pearl Jam Twenty is out and it looks like... GREAT! I mean, as a Pearl Jam fan, it seems everything we could ask as a documentary about Pearl Jam! Just look have a look at the trailer:

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